The Universe of...
Another corner of Pennsylvania
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A couple of years back I wrote:
I live in southeastern Pennsylvania, so...
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A couple of years back I wrote:
I live in southeastern Pennsylvania, so the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Delaware triple point must be somewhere nearby. I sat up and got my phone so I could look at the map, and felt foolish.
As you can see, the triple...
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Based on educating my 10 year old on the varieties of duhs.
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I am making an Exploding Kittens TV series at Netflix
It's being produced by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels.
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It's being produced by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels.
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Good vs Evil
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I have an update about my Netflix show.
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This happens roughly 4 times a week.
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This happens roughly 4 times a week.
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Thank you!
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AM I RIGHT?!
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AM I RIGHT?!
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We had a thing with A City on Mars where a lot of...
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We had a thing with A City on Mars where a lot of people couldn't disagree without assuming Secret Motives.
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It's not you, it's me. Statistically. Like 40% you,...
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It's not you, it's me. Statistically. Like 40% you, 60% me.
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Another review for A City on Mars, this one in Scientific American!
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The real fantasy is clearly a VR suit with a food...
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The real fantasy is clearly a VR suit with a food tube and a lack of perception that you're in the VR suit with a food tube.
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From this angle you can't see the Habsburg jawline.
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The keynote is gonna be reeeediculous.
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a year ago
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The keynote is gonna be reeeediculous.
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Or click here for info! Tickets are more than half sold and we're still two weeks out, so buy soon to lock yours in!
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The only awkward part is how it happens every 30 minutes.
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Slightly worried some of these are actual words.
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Bet if you get close to those peppermints they're...
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Bet if you get close to those peppermints they're covered with dead flies.
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Interestingly, it seems like whoever has the best weapon systems is destined by fate for victory.
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Lot of people are gonna say we can't build Star...
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Lot of people are gonna say we can't build Star Trek teleporters, but we can do the first half, which is pretty good.
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Slightly regretting that he didn't also take the...
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Slightly regretting that he didn't also take the guy's coat.
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Patreon users felt this one was too sad, but look...
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Patreon users felt this one was too sad, but look at the cute kid in the dino suit!
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Weirdly, bing ai won't generate this story for me,...
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Weirdly, bing ai won't generate this story for me, so we may be OK.
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Also I'm pretty sure 'et cetera' means 'I'm out of...
a year ago
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Also I'm pretty sure 'et cetera' means 'I'm out of examples but there are probably more.'
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Go ahead, email me your shrinkage joke. It's...
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Go ahead, email me your shrinkage joke. It's fine.
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I got this idea from a story I can't remember, only that it had the line 'I will show you the power of illusion' and was, possibly, from the Hindu tradition. Anyone know it?
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Right before you kill Hitler in Wolfenstein, you get a 60 hour biography, which deeply enhances the experience.
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You're in pillar of salt territory here,...
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You're in pillar of salt territory here, bro.
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Also the nice books give you fifty problems to...
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Also the nice books give you fifty problems to establish understanding while the scary books give you two trick questions.
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I mean have you ever TRIED taking up arms against a...
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I mean have you ever TRIED taking up arms against a sea? You just end up looking stupid.
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yo
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It suddenly became intersection of sex and...
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It suddenly became intersection of sex and technology week?
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The really cool thing is that those are cargo sandals, to match the cargo socks, cargo pants, cargo shirt.
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According to patreon I already did this? Sparrows in moonlight.
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This will be considered deeply offensive in 2034.
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If we survive long enough, most of the atoms in everyone's body will have at some point been involved in a murder.
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Other dilemmas take a few billion years, but they...
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Other dilemmas take a few billion years, but they all work out eventually.
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Just 10 more days!
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Deontology, as is well-known, says you should feed...
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Deontology, as is well-known, says you should feed the flame of Gornak with the flesh of man.
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Insert the p-value joke over your choice.
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Insert the p-value joke over your choice.
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Hey geeks! A few of you have requested signed copies of the new book, Bea Wolf, and they are available here.
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I am not tholin' this colon?
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I am not tholin' this colon?
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PSSST. Hey London!
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The funniest thing is that all the humans are dead and all the talking things at the end are confused robots!
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We're a best book of the year!
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I'm going to start using that first panel for all...
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I'm going to start using that first panel for all of my twitter replies.
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At some point I realized it'd be more accurate for...
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At some point I realized it'd be more accurate for me to say I understand 98% of social cues, but the 2% is where all the important ones are.
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This whole time we could have been united.
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This whole time we could have been united.
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Leave before I throw my collection of wigs at...
2 months ago
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Leave before I throw my collection of wigs at you!
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I'll just note that I'm posting this comic several...
6 months ago
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I'll just note that I'm posting this comic several hours late because I had to turn in a manuscript that was due 6 months ago.
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Dangle-balls is copyright SMBC Industries, All...
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Dangle-balls is copyright SMBC Industries, All Rights Reserved
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I don't even trust MYSELF to catch my wife, even if...
a year ago
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I don't even trust MYSELF to catch my wife, even if I'm intending to.
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Piled Higher
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Cham
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...
over a year ago
Piled Higher
& Deeper by Jorge
Cham
www.phdcomics.com
title:
"James Webb Telescope" - originally published
7/12/2021
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I feel like more comics need to use the word...
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I feel like more comics need to use the word salience.
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Remember when conspiracy theories were mostly just...
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Remember when conspiracy theories were mostly just funny?
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They must've felt so in tune with their...
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They must've felt so in tune with their environment.
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Next Tuesday!
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Go easy on the lemon.
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a year ago
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Go easy on the lemon.
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Anyone caught brandishing an ultrasound will be...
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Anyone caught brandishing an ultrasound will be escorted off the premises.
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Finally an uplifting SMBC.
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Last...
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Finally an uplifting SMBC.
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Last chance to get signed books and free audiobooks by Phil Plait and Gretchen McCulloch!
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Have you noticed nobody has ever explained *why*...
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Have you noticed nobody has ever explained *why* it's supposedly bad if human beings are converted to paperclips?
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Now is your moment to shine
A comic about an eclipse.
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A comic about an eclipse.
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For reasons related to current research projects,...
8 months ago
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For reasons related to current research projects, SMBC will be slowly switching over to obscure literary references for the foreseeable future. It's been nice knowing you.
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That one guy is actually a robot designed to look...
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That one guy is actually a robot designed to look like a human, so it's cool.
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After 10 minutes of DuoLingo, my daughter and I...
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After 10 minutes of DuoLingo, my daughter and I were able to have entire conversations in Greek just by inflecting the word karoto.
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God runs a comedy club in heaven and everyone is...
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God runs a comedy club in heaven and everyone is obligated to laugh at his disturbingly alien sense of humor.
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Thanks to everyone who came for BAHFest and congrats to our winner of the Hennig Brand trophy, Esther...
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My daughter saw me drawing and asked if it was kid appropriate, and I don't know.
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The next smbc kickstarter will be for...
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The next smbc kickstarter will be for ass-lightning.
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Look at what they tried to take from us
When I was a kid, the Beatles’ seminal 1966 album Revolver was 20%
shorter. The original release...
3 months ago
When I was a kid, the Beatles’ seminal 1966 album Revolver was 20%
shorter. The original release was not a long album: 14 tracks,
totaling 34:45. But the version I grew up with had 11 tracks,
totaling only 27:31.
Three tracks, all by Lennon, were omitted by Capitol
from the...
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a year ago
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This is literally the funniest clusivity joke ever created.
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Another double update thanks to this stupid book I wrote that people keep preordering.
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The really distressing part wasn't the 3 hours...
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The really distressing part wasn't the 3 hours spent yanking her cheeks, but the variations in pace from time to time.
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Drawing all those stupid onions was worth it for...
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Drawing all those stupid onions was worth it for the phrase keystone onion.
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Let's get unresolved ALL NIGHT LONG.
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Let's get unresolved ALL NIGHT LONG.
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Don't you all use the SSMS trick at once or it'll...
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Don't you all use the SSMS trick at once or it'll stop being offputting.
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You really gotta drag out the shhhhhhh
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You really gotta drag out the shhhhhhh
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Abstruse Goose
The Most Powerful Person in the World
over a year ago
The Universe of...
Everyday examples of morphisms with one-sided inverses
Like almost everyone except Alexander Grothendieck, I understand
things better with examples. For...
3 months ago
Like almost everyone except Alexander Grothendieck, I understand
things better with examples. For instance, how do you explain that
$$(f\circ g)^{-1} = g^{-1} \circ f^{-1}?$$
Oh, that's easy. Let be putting on your shoes
and be taking off your shoes.
And let be
putting...
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Honestly, if you think Present is bad you should've...
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Honestly, if you think Present is bad you should've seen Past!
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Later he awkwardly buys a beer and pours it down...
3 months ago
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Later he awkwardly buys a beer and pours it down his shirt.
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I like to imagine an old woman among the...
a year ago
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I like to imagine an old woman among the groundlings, hearing the twist in Macbeth and immediately hurling rotten tomatoes and having to be dragged out of the Globe.
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Free movie idea: guy goes on a road trip to find...
a year ago
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Free movie idea: guy goes on a road trip to find himself, keeps asexually creating duplicates. Title: Buds
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Writing a book to convince a child they're special...
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Writing a book to convince a child they're special is like writing a book to convince a fish it can swim.
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I wonder if Satan ever gets tired of...
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I wonder if Satan ever gets tired of winning.
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For people who've asked: if on the kickstarter we don't have a package you like, you can do any custom add-on arrangement you like. So, for example, if you want 8,000...
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Well I'm pushing back 10 years the date my kids get...
9 months ago
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Well I'm pushing back 10 years the date my kids get to read these.
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In a couple years it'll be time for the pro-robot...
a year ago
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In a couple years it'll be time for the pro-robot anti-nature SMBC collection.
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When you add in the Stalin potential it gets really...
8 months ago
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When you add in the Stalin potential it gets really dicey.
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It's the only Indiana jones that actually takes...
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It's the only Indiana jones that actually takes place in Indiana.
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The full trailer for my Netflix series just dropped!
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Bad Map Projection: Exterior Kansas
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I'm not saying you should do this, only that it'd...
5 days ago
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I'm not saying you should do this, only that it'd be awesome.
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I'm back to drawing after 2 weeks off and so let me...
a year ago
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I'm back to drawing after 2 weeks off and so let me just say that the hands will not be proportionate and accurate for at least 6 more months.
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09/17/21 PHD comic: 'The COVID-19 Virus Explained'
Piled Higher
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Cham
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...
over a year ago
Piled Higher
& Deeper by Jorge
Cham
www.phdcomics.com
title:
"The COVID-19 Virus Explained" - originally published
9/17/2021
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By 2026, it's just all teleporter comics.
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By 2026, it's just all teleporter comics.
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Rar.
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Rar.
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This was actually the 4th time the monolith's...
3 months ago
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If you write a paper against that paper you're -2, which is why negative even Erdos numbers are more prized.
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Whew! Still traveling but trying to keep my update schedule sorta OK.
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The cape cost three dollars, but it's an investment.
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I will, of course, posthumously occupy half the English Canon with my boner jokes.
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Really you start to wonder about all those pale blonde princesses in storybooks.
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Eff y'all, excel is a perfectly acceptable transitive verb. Spread the word.
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This is actually pretty close to a complaint lodged at Egil Skallagrímsson by a princess.
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Later she's forced against her will to take care of her physical and mental wellbeing.
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Panels 3 and 4 are the last 10 years of Internet summarized.
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For the three of you who read this blog, we're doing a livechat about Bea Wolf in 30 minutes on instagram!
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If he'd been Steve Hitler, there'd be no Steve now. Deep thoughts.
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...
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& Deeper by Jorge
Cham
www.phdcomics.com
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"Lab coat" - originally published
9/3/2021
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At the very least, I feel this would be a good dual use of photovoltaics.
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The hardest part is that he has to keep a lantern in there for good lighting.
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This is probably the right place to mention we made the thing people kept asking for.
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Hey Austin, come see me at UT. 1:30pm April 5 2024 RLP 1.302E. I'll be talking space!
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Hey Austin, come see me at UT. 1:30pm April 5 2024 RLP 1.302E. I'll be talking space!
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Fortunately, crowds of humans tend to congregate in places where the background is easy to draw.
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Thanks, geeks! Little reviews are beginning to trickle out into the universe, including this one by Marie Robinette...
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Interestingly, SMBC is in fact an erotic fertility behavior.
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The weirdest part is the eloquent baritone voice.
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Next he kicks the robot, and it moans in pleasure.
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You ever reflect that if Thoreau lived today he'd...
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You ever reflect that if Thoreau lived today he'd be instagramming from Walden Pond?
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I was once at a table of British people and asked why they mispronounce Latte even though they usually pronounce continental languages better than Americans, and they immediately agreed, without conferring, that it was to stick it...
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Poor Richard's Almanack
Benjamin Franklin wrote and published
Poor Richard's Almanack annually from 1732 to 1758. Paper...
3 months ago
Benjamin Franklin wrote and published
Poor Richard's Almanack annually from 1732 to 1758. Paper was
expensive and printing difficult and time-consuming. The type would
be inked, the sheet of paper laid on the press, the apprentices would
press the sheet, by turning a big screw....
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There, see? From now on at least 18% of SMBC will not be AI jokes.
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This is a complete theory of law, no exceptions, don't email me.
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Based on a conversation with Phil Plait, whom I...
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Based on a conversation with Phil Plait, whom I wish to associate with the above subject.
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St. Peter just taps the crudely drawn No Girls Allowed sign made by God.
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Two minutes includes 47 seconds of clothing removal.
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The comics have actually been written by Steamboat...
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The comics have actually been written by Steamboat Willie for the last 12 years.
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Look it's the only test with no false...
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Look it's the only test with no false negatives.
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I've been doing this for 20 years now and it feels...
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I've been doing this for 20 years now and it feels good to come clean.
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Unfortunately the driver drowns so it's a moral stalemate.
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You won't experience the ice cream in the powerful, meaningful way that I would, but you'll have a great big smile and it'll be so dear.
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Creative people express their utterly generic...
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Creative people express their utterly generic feelings with NEW phrases.
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On the other hand, the prompt verbal response is highly appreciated.
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Low Battery
The post Low Battery appeared first on Last Place Comics.
3 months ago
The post Low Battery appeared first on Last Place Comics.
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Some of the kids in my family once invented a version where you had to get one of each color in order to get through the final step, mathematically guaranteeing the game could never end. The didn't mind at all. I feel like there's...
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When humans finally step into the Experience Machine, their choice of paradise will be heartbreaking.
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This will be written one day when a traveler comes upon the ruins of Ohio.
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Really, without the heart medication and microplastics you don't get the proper terroire.
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There was a discussion on patreon about whether pix or pics is appropriate and I stand by my choice.
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OK OK but I am CORNERING the market on Milton-related humor.
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Suddenly regretting that the paw isn't throwing the goat in the last panel.
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10/22/21 PHD comic: 'Current Status'
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Piled Higher
& Deeper by Jorge
Cham
www.phdcomics.com
title:
"Current Status" - originally published
10/22/2021
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Thanks again. For people who want signed copies,...
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Try to get the feudal lord before he gets to plaguey.
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Is it time? Is it time for the all etymology jokes compendium?
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Honestly whenever I hear someone has been murdered I just assume it was one of them. How would you know?
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My reply to the people who want to designate my neighborhood a "historic district"
Last week I received a widely circulated email that began:
With tall apartment buildings being...
3 months ago
Last week I received a widely circulated email that began:
With tall apartment buildings being erected all around, we feel it
is ever more important to preserve our community.
I sent this reply.
I have been a Spruce Hill homeowner for 16 years. I had to miss the
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Any resemblance to any sitting official is a trick of the eye - this is in fact a 2D cartoon drawing.
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Oh right, you're experiencing it from a state of total oneness wherein time is without meaning, my bad.
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That than which is a perfectly acceptable English...
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That than which is a perfectly acceptable English language construction, deal with it.
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Humans all just get called FC, like it's their initials.
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Last 72 hours!
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That's where he pushes the robot into the sea.
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Later the nutritionist is forced to quote from revelations about what is to come.
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People on patreon seemed to be traumatized by this,...
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People on patreon seemed to be traumatized by this, and I guess what I'm saying is for a couple bucks a month, you could've been traumatized a day early.
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XKCD game theory question
(Source: XKCD “Exam numbers”.)
This post is about the bottom center panel, “Game Theory final...
3 months ago
(Source: XKCD “Exam numbers”.)
This post is about the bottom center panel, “Game Theory final exam”.
I don't know much about game theory and I haven't seen any other
discussion of this question. But I have a strategy I think is
plausible and I'm somewhat pleased with.
(I assume...
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Sure he's on an unrendered background but the angle on the shoes is perfect.
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Stretch goals are being revealed faster than I had expected and I should've planned more!!
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Hope you're getting a good laugh, cybo-people of 2073!
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On the other hand, lately I have a real fondness for conspiracy theories that don't involve politics.
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Unprompted, they will walk into a cafe and pretend they have important business to do.
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I would find it really satisfying if you could turn a knob in the universe and diffraction fringes would go away.
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Pokeymen t-shirt will be on sale just as soon as pokemon enters the public domain.
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Usually you can't trace your line of thought on a joke, but this is one is firmly at the intersection of listening to a sentimental podcast during the same period in which I was reading a few Karl Popper books.
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It later turns out that airborne carcinogens slow global warming, so everything is fine.
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After about 3 slayings they just sit in a chair, look out the window, and shake their heads from time to time.
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Looking at this again, Terrible Elk-God would be a great He-Man character.
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No please no emails about how this technically works in canon.
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Look he's not good at backgrounds but he's trying. Give him a hug.
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Sesame Street is to blame.
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Sesame Street is to blame.
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Elsewhere, a species with 20 fingers per hand will believe pretty much anything is true.
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Let's hit each other with fake swords.
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'It's pretty clear Eden is just a simulation, man.'
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Cosmos 4,982,112 was trash but 4,982,113 is going to get things perfect, I'm sure.
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I feel the quickest way to spot bias is to find someone who reacts to something terrible by worrying about the impression a third party will get.
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The weirdest thing is when the conscious minds start inventing reasons for all of this.
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Weirdly, evil Kant requires you to lie to save people from murderers.
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Fortunately he was able to invest those socks and return a dividend later.
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[last 4 digits of your cat's chip ID] -> [your cat's full chip ID] -> [a drawing of your cat] -> [photo of your cat] -> [clone of your cat] -> [your actual cat] -> [my better cat]" alt="[exclamation about how cute your cat is] -> [last 4 digits of your cat's chip ID] -> [your...
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If demand is high enough, SMBC will reorient all business around the production of nugs.
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A little Adderall wouldn't hurt either.
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A little Adderall wouldn't hurt either.
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This is why smbc refuses to be about anything whatsoever, except maybe the idea that clowns are a species with interesting sexual customs.
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I too commit the fundamental attribution error!
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Every time I tell a joke about ads targeting men for being weak I wonder if I'm the only one who's being targeted.
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What's really irritating is the way some of them live lives of quiet desperation which is a thing our people have been doing for generations.
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Genuinely ashamed how much time was wasted on this.
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Yeah? Well it won't seem degrading when all the plumbers get replaced and you've got a head-start.
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I'm like 4 comics away from the Clown Book.
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I'm like 4 comics away from the Clown Book.
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Someday the machine will give you everything you want, and the pretenses will be dropped so rapidly it'll be heartbreaking.
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We're in this really awkward stage where sapient life is possible, but it'll pass.
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You can also farm for human pelts, but the town guards get angry.
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Was reading a book that pointed out that everything kid understands the idea of 'that's mine,' but has to be taught 'that's yours'
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SMBC is the 74-almost funniest webcomic.
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SMBC is the 74-almost funniest webcomic.
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If you were a patreon subscriber, you would be seeing my magnum opus at this very moment.
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Six dimensions is OK, but 7+ is for freaks.
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Six dimensions is OK, but 7+ is for freaks.
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Let's fight about it.
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Later they just have their bots engage in a debate while they go get ice cream.
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Tiny hats would cost a literal fraction of the price of the mittens.
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I mean really when was the last time you met a self-cloning species that tries to learn to play guitar?
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We too have our seasons, Frosty.
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